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“When design gets it right, it does not just improve the space, but it changes your clients’ lives and how they experience themselves in it.”
This feature for Kitchen & Bath Business Magazine is a piece I’ve been sitting with for a while, and I’m thrilled to share it here on the blog.
It’s about designing for neurodivergent clients. And yes, I included something personal: I have ADHD and likely dyslexia. That experience is a big part of why I design the way I do.
One in five people identify as neurodivergent. They’re sitting across from us in first conversations, describing spaces that have quietly exhausted them for years, often without the language to explain why. That’s where intentional design makes a difference.
The article gets into how I think about cognitive load in kitchen layouts, why the questions I ask matter as much as what I specify, and how decisions like lighting and acoustics in a bathroom can either regulate or dysregulate a nervous system.
The spaces we create either work with people or against them. We get to choose which.
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